Quotes About Resilience

And it was different because she was alive, when she had so nearly been dead. And because that had been her choice. A choice to live.

There was death. Violent, oblivious death, in bear form, staring at her with its black eyes. And she knew then, more than she'd known anything, that she wasn't ready to die.

Yesterday I knew I had no future, and that it was impossible for me to accept my life as it is now. And yet today, that same messy life seems full of hope. Potential.

Wat je over pijn leert als je ziek bent, kun je dan ook toepassen op betere tijden. Pijn is een kei van een leermeester.

A wave can kill you. Or you can ride it. It's sometimes more dangerous to shy away. You can't live your life in fear, Tom. You have to be prepared to get on your board and stand on your feet. If you are in the barrel of a wave you have to ignore the fear. You have to be in that moment. You have to carve on through. You get scared, and the next thing you know you are off your board and smashing your head on a rock.

Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up. Nothing is stronger than a small hope that doesn't give up.

to be calm becomes a kind of revolutionary act

Lincoln didn't do great work because he solved the problem of his melancholy; the problem of his melancholy was all the more fuel for the fire of his great work.

S'il y a une issue, une issue qui ne soit pas la mort elle-même, alors elle passe par les mots. Mais plutôt que de quitter totalement l'esprit, les mots nous aident à quitter UN esprit et nous donnent les outils pour en bâtir un autre, similaire mais meilleur, proche de l'ancien mais avec des fondations plus fermes, et souvent avec une meilleure vue.

She could plant a forest inside herself.

Depression is also . . . Smaller than you. Always, it is smaller than you, even when it feels vast. It operates within you, you do not operate within it. It may be a dark cloud passing across the sky, but—if that is the metaphor—you are the sky.

Find a passion as large as your fear. The way out of your mind is via the world.

THEN ME: I need a reason to stay alive. I need something strong that will keep me here. NOW ME: Okay, okay, give me a minute . . .

Pressure makes us, though. You start off as coal and the pressure makes you a diamond.' She didn't correct his knowledge of diamonds. She didn't tell him that while coal and diamonds are both carbon, coal is too impure to be able, under whatever pressure, to become a diamond. According to science, you start off as coal and you end up as coal.

Maybe there was no perfect life for her, but somewhere, surely, there was a life worth living.

Because she had it written in her DNA that she had to fail.

Love is an attitude to life. It can save us.

seemed the more lives she lived, the harder it was to feel at home anywhere.

That feeling you have, that everything is going to get worse, is just a symptom.

Esquivaré en mi vida, milagrosamente, el dolor, la desesperanza, la pérdida, el desamor, las penurias, la soledad, la depresión? No. Pero ¿quiero vivir? Sí. Sí, desde luego Mil veces, sí.

No, the shock was that she felt like she was about to live. Or at least, that she could imagine wanting to be alive again. And she wanted to do something good with that life.

It seems that worrying about growing old is a sign you are young. And the main reason to be optimistic about old age is that old people themselves are. Resilience seems to grow.

Check your emotional armour is actually protecting you, and not so heavy you can't move.

Albert Camus said, "There is no love of life without despair of life.